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Pakistan: CM Village Ambulance Service Great Project

Lahore: Provincial Minister for Minorities Affairs and Human Rights Khalil Tahir Sandhu on 18 July said Chief Minister’s Village Ambulance Service in the province would prove a great project.\r\nIn a statement issued here, he said the Punjab government had come up with the Ambulance Service to provide the best healthcare facilities to pregnant women. Now pregnant women could get registered with the programme and could avail a free ambulance service by calling 1034, he said and added initially, the project would be started with 193 ambulances in 36 districts of Punjab.

Pakistan: 500 Ambulances HandedOver to Rescue-1122

Lahore: Patient transfer service has been introduced for which more than 500 ambulances of good condition have been handed over to Rescue-1122. This service was started in February 2017 and so far more than 90,000 patients have been shifted from different hospitals.

Pakistan: YDA Punjab to Resume Work at Emergency Wards

Lahore: The Young Doctors Association (YDA), Punjab, has managed only partial strike in hospitals of Punjab especially in Lahore on 2 August as it failed to draw a favourable response from majority of young doctors.\r\nThe YDA leadership is gradually losing its writ within young doctors’ community as it reduced itself to only few hospitals, as young doctors in major hospitals of Lahore rejected the strike and continued discharging their duties in emergency, indoor and outdoor wards.

Philippines: Laoag Hospital Now on Wheels

Laoag City: The Laoag City General Hospital is now on wheels with the recent purchase of a P10 million-worth mobile clinic. The “Laoag City General Hospital on Wheels” will provide services ranging from x-ray, ultrasound, complete blood chemistry (CBC), including medical and dental services.
The mobile clinic is equipped with life-saving devices such as X-ray machine, electrocardiogram (ECG) machine and hospital bed.

The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) in Caraga upgraded its training in Incident Command System (ICS) through participating in a 5-day Integrated Planning Course held at Pietros Square.
The course contains the duties and responsibilities of the planning section chief (PSC), one of the general staff under the incident commander (IC).
The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) Caraga led the activity through Regional Director Liza Mazo, chairperson of the region’s RDRRMC. The participants have already attended the basic/intermediate course in ICS last May 2012.
From April 29 to May 3, the partic